Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Mars Robot Spirit Rebooted Itself - Twice

"NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit mysteriously rebooted its computer twice over the weekend; mission controllers are examining data sent back by Spirit to see if they can diagnose the problem behind the glitch...."

And, Mars is a rough place. Although the dust storms kept Spirit's solar panels clear all these years.

The science fiction fan in me, of course, came up with some colorful ideas that might make good stories: Spirit's multiple reboots are due to the robot 'waking up;' or maybe 'They' have been fiddling with the equipment.

Updated (May 23, 2010) The Lemming doesn't often revisit a topic quite this exactly: but the Varma Mansion is special. Besides, Contemp...

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I'm a sixty-something married guy with six kids, four surviving, in a small central Minnesota town.

One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run a factory; another is a cartoonist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters, and has a day job.